Peaceful Development and the Chinese Dream of National Rejuvenation

Shortly after the successful convening of the 18th National Party Congress, newly elected General Secretary Xi Jinping put forth the important concept of the ＂Chinese Dream.＂ Since then, Xi has made various observations on China＇s path of peaceful development, including remarks that were issued at the collective learning sessions of the Politburo of the Communist Party. These remarks and observations undoubtedly enrich the strategic connotations of peaceful development. As Xi clearly stated, the concept of the Chinese dream and the path of peaceful development are consistent with each other. The former is Chinas lofty goal, while the latter is the only correct path via which China can achieve this goal.     

China’s Diplomatic Strategy and Peaceful Development:Opportunities and Challenges

The strategy of peaceful development pursued by China in the present international environment is faced with both opportunities and challenges, with the former outweighing the latter. To make proper use of the opportunities and cope with the challenges so as to accelerate the process of China’s peaceful development, it is crucial to improve our diplomatic strategy and ideas and plan our diplomatic work from an overall strategic perspective. This is also a major issue posed to China’s diplom…     

Evolution of the U.S. Strategy toward China and China’s Peaceful Development

China-U.S. relationship is the most important one between two big powers in the world today. It is both bilateral and global by nature. How to handle this relationship is closely linked with the fundamental interests of the U.S. and China, as well as peace and stability in the Asia Pacific region and even in the world. So, a profound examination of the nature of U.S. strategy toward China and its evolution over the years will help to fully understand the opportunities and challenges China will meet in the course of peaceful development.     

Chinas African Engagement：Advancmg Multilateralism

While holding the office of General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Hu Jintao t advanced the idea of＂China＇s peaceful rise,＂ which emphasizes Chinas commitment to refrain from violent confrontation. Adherence to this principle can help positively reshape the international order, transitioning international politics from a Westphalian system characterized by violent competition. Advocating multilateralism in international relations is an effective policy tool for China to achieve this goal. Perhaps the best region where one can see the benefits of China＇s multilateralism is Africa.     

China's Grand Strategy Seen from the Report to the CPC 18th National Congress

Clash of Opinions
Opinions vary over the question： ＂Does Beijing have a strategy. Both affirmative and negative answers have been heard. Witness the arguments for and against. The pros point to Mao Zedong＇s Ping-Pong diplomacy that shook the world by moving a big ball with a small one; Deng Xiaoping＇s Theory on reform and opening up, as well as his Three-Stage Development Strategy; and China＇s adherence to the path of peaceful development. Any one of these can be regarded as a grand strategy. On the con side, however, comes this sarcastic retort.＇ Just look at how the Middle Kingdom is kept constantly on the run responding to emergencies in foreign affairs without any internal coordination to speak of or any systemic approach to turn to. Is this not an eloquent testimony to the lack of a grand strategy？ Echoing this view, the former Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd, in his recent article,     

Peaceful Development—China’s Inevitable Way of Modernization

O n November 9, 2005, Chinese President Hu Jintao pointed out: What China chooses and adheres to is a road of peaceful development and China’s development is peaceful, open and cooperative. The Chinese people have profoundly realized that only peaceful d…     

Building Friends Nearby： Chinas Economic Relations with Neighboring Countries

Peripheral diplomacy tops China＇s overall diplomatic layout. Economic diplomacy has also increasingly become an importantpart of Chinese diplomacy. Therefore, it is of important strategic significance to promote economic diplomacy in the surrounding areas. For China, now is a conflict-prone period in relations with its neighboring countries, a sensitive time of American rebalancing to Asia Pacific and a period of development bottlenecks in the peaceful rise of China. It is an important strategic issue for China to figure out how to join neighboring countries to achieve an inclusive growth and symbiotic development, to translate its economic influence in the surrounding areas into political influence, and to better safeguard national interests and improve diplomatic influence.     

Bush Administration Has Its Biggest Diplomatic Legacy in Its Relations with China

An emerging China is embarking on the road of peaceful development. The statesmen and strategists in Washington have always felt anxious that late-coming powers might challenge the existing hegemony out of their discontent with the status quo. This was one of the reasons why America took China as a strategic rival at the early stage of the Bush presidency. But after the 9/11 incident, or even as early as in July that year when Secretary of State Collin Powell visited China, there was a major readjustment in American policy toward China. Both governments took cooperation as their important policy orientation.     

深刻领会习近平外交思想的理论与实践意义

In the seven decades since its founding,the People’s Republic of China(PRC)has added a glorious chapter to its development epic,and achieved the“two miracles”of rapid economic development and longterm social stability.The Chinese nation is proudly striding on the great road of“becoming strong”and embracing the brilliant prospects of rejuvenation.China has never been closer to the grand goal of national rejuvenation or more influential on the world than it is today,while the attention paid to China by the international community has never been greater.     

New Development of East Asian Regional Cooperation and Its Prospects

East Asian regional cooperation is advancing with the concerted efforts of various parties. It not only conforms to the world development trend, but also is the objective reflection of the historical development of countries in the region. At ASEAN-related summits held in late October 2009, the concept of constructing an East Asian Community was officially presented as the long-term goal of East Asian regional cooperation.     

朝鲜半岛局势发展前瞻与中国的作用

The situation on the Korean Peninsula has witnessed a major shift since 2018:the road towards a resolution of the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue has returned to the path of negotiation,and major breakthroughs and improvements have been made in bilateral relations between the US and the DPRK,between North and South Korea,as well as between China and North Korea.However,with major disputes in core issues remaining including the pathway toward nuclear dismantlement and the removal of international sanctions,negotiations between the US and the DPRK have stalled.At the end of 2019,the fifth plenary session of the seventh Central Committee of the Workers’Party of Korea(WPK)made a great strategic adjustment,shifting from the approach of devoting itself to domestic economic development and facilitating negotiations with a peaceful posture,to one of stressing both the economy and the military domestically and exerting more pressure to push negotiations diplomatically.     

Some Personal Thoughts on Peace and Security in the Korean Peninsula

Peace and stability in the Korean peninsula is a premise and necessary condition for the security of Northeast Asia and China＇s surrounding areas. It is also critical for China＇s peaceful development. The end of the confrontation between the two camps led respectively by the U.S. and USSR over 20 years ago has not brought the Gospel of peace and security to the Korean peninsula, nor has it really changed the standoff situation of cold war in the peninsula. On the contrary,     

The Development Trend in China’ s Surrounding Areas

China’s surrounding areas are in a special transition period necessitated by China’s peaceful rise and the adjustment of its Asian strategy.In2014,these neighboring areas inherited the development trend of the previous three years,coaxing out changes that we are beginning to see.Changes in world economic growth,America’s rebalancing strategy,and alterations in Sino-Japanese relations are direct results of China’s rise,and other development trends are in the offing.The high-speed growth stage for Asian emerging economies has come to an end.Moderate growth in parallel with reform is the new norm in Asian economy.Due to the collective slowing of emerging economies,     

中国对外开放新格局与共建“一带一路”高质量发展（英文）

Guided by the new development philosophy, the high-quality development of Belt and Road cooperation has blazed a new path for China’s opening-up. By staying focused on development, facilitating mutual benefit and deepening connectivity, it is significant in building momentum for global and regional economic growth and narrowing the North-South gap. It is not only a booster for the transformative development of developing countries but also an important agenda that needs to be upheld over time to...     

SCO Assessments of Post-Taliban Afghanistan

Last year the Shanghai Cooperation Organization marked the 10th anniversary of its founding.During this relatively short period a considerable progress has been reached in carrying out cooperation in three major areas,i.e.security,economic cooperation,as well as the humanitarian "basket". Combating terrorism,separatism and extremism is a matter of special priority within the context of the SCO's task on ensuring regional stability and security.This is a solid and specific manifestation of SCO basic principles,the policy of gradual peaceful development of the region.1 In practical terms,the implementation of key documents such as the Shanghai Convention on combating terrorism,separatism and extremism,the Counterterrorism Convention,as well as triennial Cooperation Programmes on combating terrorism,separatism and extremism represents an unconditional priority for the SCO in the security field.The Regulations on political diplomatic measures and mechanisms of SCO response to events jeopardizing peace,security and stability in the region adopted in 2009,as well as its revised version being updated currently,are aimed at serving the same goal.     

Thirty Years of China＇s Diplomacy： Trajectory and Challenges Ahead

The 60 years since the birth of New China can be divided into two equal parts with the second 30 years of Chinese diplomacy reflecting tremendous changes in the country and its society. And its central task in this period boils down to building a peaceful external environment for the domestic modernization drive. In the process, based on independence and the world-known Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence, taking shape is a diplomatic strategy that is both all-directional in scope and rich in Chinese characteristics. Since the advent of the 21st century, the country has defined four areas of focus in its diplomacy and put forward the watchword of ＂peaceful development.＂ Looking ahead, China is facing new challenges in its diplomacy of how to preserve harmonious relations with the outside world and set up a Chinese model reflecting its own core values, thereby investing with it greater international appeal and value of universal application.     

New Developments in China＇s Relations with Neighboring Countries

China has vast land and water territories, with 22,000km border line and 18,000km coastal line. Bordering 14 countries, China is also a country with the most neighboring countries in the world. Harmony with neighbors leads to peaceful surrounding environment--an important prerequisite for China＇s domestic economic building. Therefore, China always puts developing good-neighborly relations as the priority of its foreign policy.     

International System and China＇s Asia-Pacific Strategy

What impact does a shift in the global distribution of power have on the international order？ According to the views of traditional realists, power transitions in the international order are usually accompanied by major wars, the best example being the two world wars of the twentieth century. China＇s peaceful rise is conducive to the peace and stability of Asia and Pacific regions. The steady rise of China＇s position and its role in dealing with international and regional problems have proved China＇s success in ＂cooperative security＂. This paper analyzes the security order in the Asia-Pacific region1 that China wants to construct to provide important guarantees to its peaceful rise. Firstly, I review and compare key arguments about the transition of international systems and China＇s Asia-Pacific strategy, Secondly, I investigate the dynamics between China＇s peaceful rise and the ＂cooperative security＂ which I think are the collective embodiments of modem transformation and the restructuring of China＇s traditional strategic culture. Thirdly, I examine how to construct a mechanism of cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region to guarantee China＇s peaceful rise on both political and economic levels. Economic cooperation and free trade in Asia-Pacific region is an important route to regional economic integrity which will guarantee China＇s role in maintaining the political and economic security in the region.     

Chinese Diplomacy towards Its Neighbors： Inheritance,Innovation and Development

Ibelieve that China＇s diplomatic strategy towards its neighbors should serve the general strategic goal of rejuvenating the Chinese nation asenvisioned in President Xi Jinping＇s ＂China Dream＂. It has clear precedence and should be adjusted as the situation evolves. The fundamental goals of China＇s diplomatic strategy, since the implementation of Reform and Opening-Up, have been economic construction and the building and maintenance of a peaceful international and regional environment.     

Value and Politics of China and Russia

The 17th National Congress stressed that the Party must keep to the path of political development under socialism with Chinese characteristics. Since the introduction of the reform and opening up policy, China＇s economy has developed quickly, supplementing its political construction. Progress in the economy and political development have raised China＇s confidence and made the Chinese system more attractive to the rest of the world. Though China＇s political development has been achieved under the correct democratic development viewpoint, difficulties may yet arise, and China may need to look outside to other political achievements; importantly, China has the confidence and determination to make its political development harmonious, orderly and effective.